Create, shut down, and restore projects

You can use one project to manage all of your work, or you can create multiple projects, depending on your development and collaboration needs. Before creating a project, you should consider whether you're collaborating with a different team of people, want to track usage differently, or need to set different traffic controls for different parts of your work. If so, breaking up your work into multiple projects might make sense.

Choose a topic for information on creating, shutting down, and restoring projects.

Enter a name and edit the project ID or accept the default. (Note that the project ID cannot be changed after the project is created, so choose an ID that you'll be comfortable using for the lifetime of the project.)

If you already have billing accounts set up, select the billing account you want the project costs charged to. If you don't already have a billing account set up you can set it up later.

Creating multiple projects will not enable you to exceed API usage limits. For more information on API rate limits, see the documentation for the API you're using. For information on API limits for Google Compute Engine APIs, see API Rate Limits in the Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine documentation.

If you reach your project quota for Google Cloud Platform, you must request more projects. Learn how at Project quota requests.

After a 30-day waiting period, the project and associated data are permanently deleted from the console.

Note that after the 30-day waiting period ends, the time it takes to completely delete a project may vary. For example, if a project has billing set up, it might not be completely deleted until the current billing cycle ends, you receive the next bill, and your account is successfully charged. Additionally, the number and types of services in use may also affect when the system permanently deletes a project.

Project owners can restore a terminated project within the 30-day waiting period that starts when the project is shut down. Restoring a project returns it to the state it was in prior to being shut down.